Nowhere To Run Know Where To Hide

Nowhere to runKnow where to

Hide?!

I want to go to Egypt and Japan

and open orphanages.

A chain of them!

Wal-Mart... do they like make

walls there?

I don't like defining myself.

I just am

Arrested for different reasons

Freed for none

Freedom of speech isn t to be confused with...

Freedom fromintelligence

?

’

In a world where knowledge is power and information relies on technology, it is as malleable as technology itself...

In a world where knowledge is power and information relies on technology, it is as malleable as technology itself...

Scary huh!

Here's a man, held back because he chose to set the truth free


Julian Assange


Hactivist. Visionary. Lethal tattle-tail*

*not intended to be a tongue twister


Australian by birth(July 3rd,1971)



Twisted by Nature



Twisted by Nature

Actually, No!


Julian didn t have a normal childhood

’


Julian didn t have a normal childhood

’At 16, you were probably wrestling a pimple off your face


Julian began hacking!

At 16, you were probably wrestling a pimple off your face

!

Here's a man, held back because he chose to set the truth freeWent by the name

Mendax


Mendax

Derived from a phrase by Horace: “Splendide mendax”


Mendax

Derived from a phrase by Horace: “Splendide mendax”

Meaning ‘Nobly truthful’!!!

21At the age of

21At the age of

probably facedYou

21At the age of

probably facedYou

A moody girlfriend

21At the age of

probably facedYou

A moody girlfriend

Worried parents

21At the age of

probably facedYou

A moody girlfriend

Worried parents

or worse... yesterday's reheated dinner

21At the age of

Julian Assangefaced

21At the age of

24Hacking charges!!!

Julian Assangefaced

Number of colleges went to ???You

1 or 2Number of colleges went to ???You

Number of colleges went to ???

6!Number of colleges went to ???

Physics MathematicsNeuroscience

Philosophy

1993Was involved in founding Australia's public ISP

1997Co-invents the Rubberhose* deniable encryption

A linux-based cryptographic software.Called it “A tool for human rights workers who needed to protect sensitive data in the field”

*

1999Registered the domain “leaks.org”

1999Registered the domain “leaks.org”

Claims he didn’t do anything with it

2006Come

2006Come

WikiLeaks went online

Breaking NewsClassified documents leaked!!

ot really, they have been doing it

for a while now

Breaking NewsClassified documents leaked!!

N

But this time

But this timethe leak was

But this timethe leak wasFRESH

But this timethe leak wasFRESHGOSSIPY

&

But this timethe leak wasFRESHGOSSIPY

&So now thatthey have ourATTENTION

A few questionsarise...

?

? What is its purpose?


? What is its purpose?How does

it function?



How do they get the scoop?

How does it function?



How do they get the scoop?

How does it function?

Where can we find leaked info?


We have got someInside information

?

We have got someInside information

Purpose

Launched in 2006Primary interest: Revealing secrets…duh!

Purpose


Assistance to people who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations

Purpose



Started with exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East

Purpose

Purpose



Started with exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East

Founder says website is a forum for the Internet community to generate accuracy, scrutiny and discussion of sensitive information

Functioning

Functioning

www.wikileaks.org

Functioning

The site is maintained by

Volunteers

www.wikileaks.org

Functioning

The organization is so covert that they go only by initials

www.wikileaks.org

Functioning

The organization is so covert that they go only by initialsAnd all chats done in code!

@#$%$#Ahem!Ahem!

www.wikileaks.org

Functioning

Only a handful work directly with the founder full time

www.wikileaks.org

Functioning

Operates out of several countries including Sweden and Iceland

Privacy protection and digital rights laws are

more favorable to WikiLeaks mission

www.wikileaks.org

www.wikileaks.org

Scoop

Completely anonymous submissions from whistleblowers

anywhere around the world

Drop Box

Scoopwww.wikileaks.org



Drop Box

Highly secure, cutting-edge cryptographic information technology




Drop Box


WikiLeaks journalists analyze the material and verify the information




Drop Box


Repackage the information in the form of a news pieceand publish it along with the original material


The news stories are in the comfortable presentation style of Wikipedia


The two organizationsare otherwise not relatedx


The two organizationsare otherwise not relatedx

Also unlike Wikipedia, random readers can not edit source ‘WikiLeaks’ documents

xScoop

www.wikileaks.org

www.wikileaks.org

Where can we find WikiLeaks?


www.wikileaks.org

www.wikileaks.orgHost cites mass attack and site vanishes from the web!



www.wikileaks.chSite relocated to Switzerland. Service remains edgy





Kicked out of the cloudby Amazon!



Currently hosted in-part by French firm OVH





www.wikileaks.chDNS Services to cut offSite now only accessible via IP address!





213.251.145.96DNS Services to cut offSite now only accessible via IP address!






Mirrors pointing to the address have popped up






www.wikileaks.nlMirrors pointing to the address have popped up






www.wikileaks.flwww.wikileaks.nlMirrors pointing to the address have popped up






www.wikileaks.dewww.wikileaks.flwww.wikileaks.nlMirrors pointing to the address have popped up






www.wikileaks.dewww.wikileaks.flwww.wikileaks.nlMirrors pointing to the address have popped up

!PhewWhere can we find WikiLeaks?

!SomeStats

!SomeStats

The 2008 Economist Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression award

The 2009 Amnesty International human rights reporting award (New Media)

WikiLeaks is the winner of

Listed First in the ranking of "websites that could totally change the news"- New York Daily News

!SomeStats

WikiLeaksclaimed a database of more than

1.2 million confidential documents within a year of its launch

!SomeStats Continues to grow at the pace of

one every few minutes.

Topping 1000 on one of the days

The number of mirror sites for

WikiLeaks

!SomeStats

WikiLeaks

1,196,327People

On a lighter note…

Like

But gestures can only do so much


when faced withthe ugly truth


how many of us wouldprefer a pretty lie?

when faced withthe ugly truth

How do youDraw the line?


betw

een


betw

een

Doing what

is right!


betw

een

Doing what

is right!And rights that youtake for granted?

If you

If youwere Julian Assange

If youwere Julian Assange

What wouldYOU DO?

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